<p>Based on my information below, what would you say are my chances at getting into Duke? Please give me advice on how to increase my chances of getting in!</p>
<p>STANDARDIZED TESTS</p>
<p>i took the SAT in June ( 2nd try; first was a 2000) and got these scores:
M- 730
W- 680
CR- 680
Composite- 2090 (Should i take this again?)</p>
<p>ACT Composite- 30 (Should i take this again?)</p>
<p>SAT II's:
Math II : 750
Bio E: 730
US History: 670</p>
<p>SCHOOL</p>
<p>I attend a VERY small high school in California (only 10 years old with an application process) with about 70 students in my entire class and 7 faculty members for the whole school. Our school has NO sports and NO AP classes an my college classes are simply counted as CP classes, so forgive my pathetic GPA and lack of ECs.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.855 UW (No APs in my school)
Rank: 10/70
College Semester Units completed: 80.5
AA Degree in Humanities
AA Degree in Liberal Arts
AA Degree in Natural Sciences
Want to major in Biology and Economics</p>
<p>Community College Classes taken:</p>
<p>Fundamentals of Computer Science A
Career Self-Assessment A
Career Exploration A
Introductory Logic B
Introduction to Psychology A
Introduction to Linguistics A
Fundamentals of Speech A
Written Communications A
Library Information Literacy A
Beginning Tennis A
Mythology A
Art History A
American Government and Institutions B
Elementary Spanish (1) A
Elementary Spanish (2) A
Principles of Economics: Macro A
Critical Composition A
Beginning Individual Conditioning A
Beginning Badminton A
General Chemistry (1) B
Precalculus I B
Core Biology A
History of Western Civilization A
Precalculus II A
Calculus B
Probability and Statistics</p>
<p>Community College courses planned for Senior Year:</p>
<p>General Botany
General Zoology
General Chemistry (2)
Calculus (2)
Principles of Economics: Micro</p>
<p>E.C.s</p>
<p>Junior Representative in Student Government
Founder/ President of the Sports and Activities Club (for 3 years)
Volunteer at the local library (125+ hours over 4 years)
Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity (70+ hours since January 2008)
Volunteer at Soup Kitchen
Volunteer at a Retirement Home
Volunteer at Neighbors in Health (free healthcare)
Key Club Sergeant at Arms (Member for 4 years)
Art Club
Academic Decathlon (4 medals in January and i hope to be a captain or starter next year)
Alpha Gamma Sigma (college academic honors Club)
Letter of Recs from two college professors (Bio and Spanish) and a counselor</p>
<p>Please give me advice on how to give myself a better shot of getting into Duke! Thank you!</p>
<p>not sure. you should take the SATs again because your scores aren't quite in the range, although the don't rule u out in any way. im a little confused by the whole community college courses thing. 10/70 isn't spectacular. your gpa's pretty good. what the heck is an AA degree? humanities are a part of liberal arts soo......?</p>
<p>senior year schedule: no english? foreign language? why is your course selection so specialized. </p>
<p>id like to say you've got a good shot but im not confident i really understand your profile well enough to say</p>
<p>An AA degree is an Associate in Arts degree, one you receive from a 2 year community college upon completion. The community college I attend has two separate degrees for liberal arts (general) and Humanities (ie mine is in Spanish).</p>
<p>My senior year schedule is not only the classes listed above (those are just my community college courses). I am taking:</p>
<p>English 12, Academic Decathlon, Government, Economics, AVID 12, Teacher's Aide, General Botany, General Zoology, General Chemistry (2), Calculus II, and Principles of Microeconomics. </p>
<p>My high school has very limited classes available and no APs, thus all the community college courses. There is no foreign language class in my schedule because high school students are only allowed a maximum of 11 units of college courses in a semester. Foreign language is also not offered at my high school.</p>
<p>Umm...I can't really gauge your academic success since I don't really know the situation, but it looks like you did as well as you could there. Besides that though, your ECs are very vanilla, and your SAT score is pretty pedestrian (I believe 25th percentile of enrolled students is around 1400).</p>
<p>Yeah, because scoring in the 95th percentile is really...really pedestrian. Are you serious, godevils?</p>
<p>Eaad- it's tough to assess your chances (just like with any other applicant), but it looks like you got everything you could out of your high school, which Duke will appreciate. If I were you, I'd retake the ACT because even a point or two higher in composite would put you in a much "safer" range. At this point, though, you're not going to be rejected based on your scores.</p>
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Yeah, because scoring in the 95th percentile is really...really pedestrian. Are you serious, godevils?
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Completely, because that SAT score isn't gonna get compared to every SAT score in the nation. It's going to get compared to other applicants'. And it will be pretty pedestrian, when you consider it's about 25th percentile, and we can probably assume that a lot of that 25% is composed of athletes, minorities, legacies, or otherwise hooked applicants.</p>
<p>Not trying to be an jerk, just trying to be realistic.</p>